50-70% of people will experience a trauma in their life, but how do you heal from these devastating experiences? If the Body Keeps the Score, according to Bessel van der Kolk this is how you get even with trauma.
Bessel van der Kolk is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and President of the Trauma Research Foundation. He is the author of the global bestselling book ‘The Body Keeps The Score’.
In this conversation, Bessel and Steven discuss topics such as, how to heal from childhood trauma, the benefits of EMDR therapy, the link between screens and loneliness, and how trauma physically changes your brain.
Intro
Bessel's Mission
What Is Trauma?
What Trauma Treatments Do You Disagree With?
Does Rationalising Your Trauma Help?
What Is Considered Trauma?
Can Small Events Lead to Trauma?
Bessel's Experience as a Psychiatrist
Bessel's Parents
Consequences of Child Abuse
Is It Important to Understand Childhood Experiences?
Was Your Mother an Incest Victim?
How Many Patients Trace Issues to Childhood Experiences?
Examples of Child Abuse
How Culture Influences Parenting
Disciplining Children
Liberation Equals Separation
What Did You Learn for Your Children?
Medical Treatment for Behavioural Dysfunctions in Children
Impact of Movement on Healing
Importance of Secure Attachment to a Caregiver
Can You Heal from Childhood Trauma?
The Body Keeps the Score
Somatic Approach to Healing
Are Women More in Touch with Somatic Healing?
Impact of Trauma on Creativity
Trauma as a Perception
How Many People Have Trauma?
How Does Trauma Affect Brain Activity?
Study: Reliving a Traumatic Event
Most Radical Improvement in Clinical Practice
EMDR
Demonstration of EMDR
Breath work
Impact of Yoga on Trauma
Study: Effects of a Weekly Yoga Class
Disconnection and Hypersensitivity
Impact of Physical Activity on Trauma
Picking Up People's Energy
Challenges of Individualistic Cultures
Role of Community and Social Connections in Trauma
Are Women Better at Forming Connections?
Building Relationships in the Army
Building Connections Through Sports
How to Get By in an Individualistic Society
Are You Optimistic About the Future?
Are You Able to Point Out Anything Good About Trump?
Human Inclination Toward Fighting
Three Ways to Reverse the Damage of Trauma
Types of Brainwaves
Psychedelic Therapy
Body Practices
Is Touch Healing?
Talk Therapy
Bessel's View on Taking Medications
The Bottom-Up Approach
Does Going to the Gym Help?
Bessel's View on Psychedelic Therapy
Effects of MDMA
Impact of Psychedelics on Treatment-Resistant Depression
Bessel's Experience with Psychedelics
How Did Psychedelic Experiences Change You?
Have You Healed from Your Trauma?
Psychodrama
The Rise in ADHD Diagnoses
Cause of ADHD
Is ADHD Over diagnosed?
How Can We Raise Untraumatised Kids?
Helping People in Traumatic Events
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